GHSA-74rh-c5rh-88vg
XWiki vulnerable to click-jacking through CSS injection in comments
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web | >= 17.5.0, < 17.9.0 | 17.9.0 |
| Maven | org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web | >= 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.4.6 | 17.4.6 |
| Maven | org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web | < 16.10.13 | 16.10.13 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
It's possible using comments to inject CSS that would transform the full wiki in a link area leading to a malicious page. All versions of XWiki are impacted by this kind of attack.
### Patches
The problem has been patched not by preventing injecting CSS in comments, which is currently a feature of XWiki, but by requiring confirmation from users when driving them to untrusted domains after clicking on a link, thus preventing any click-jacking attack.
This security measure has been put in place in XWiki 17.9.0, 17.4.6, 16.10.13.
### Workarounds
There's no out-of-the-box workaround, but it should be possible to partly reuse [the javascript code provided for the security measure](https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/xwiki-platform-17.9.0/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-web/xwiki-platform-web-war/src/main/webapp/resources/uicomponents/link/link-protection.js) in a JSX object inside the wiki, to request the same kind of confirmation.
### References
* JIRA ticket: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-23433
* Documentation of the new security measure: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Data/XWiki/17.9.0RC1/Entry006/
* Commit for the security fix: https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/29cb81f3a5387cf822d7e7534bdd63903275f86b
### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Open an issue in [Jira XWiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/)
* Email us at [Security Mailing List](mailto:[email protected])
### Attribution
Thanks Tomas Keech (Sentrium Security Ltd) for reporting this vulnerability.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-74rh-c5rh-88vg
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26000
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/pull/4645
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/29cb81f3a5387cf822d7e7534bdd63903275f86b
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/7b5a4f8c34d9b1da3d966e17f7dbccabac448e75
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/releases/tag/xwiki-platform-17.4.6
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-23433
- https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Data/XWiki/17.9.0RC1/Entry006